Office tenants plan growth as hybrid work boosts demand

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43 percent of office tenants expect to expand space

Hybrid work keeps midweek attendance strongest

Demand is highest for top-quality, well-located offices

U.S. office space deliveries hit lowest level in a decade

Office users nationally said they expect to grow or maintain their footprints as in- office attendance continues to improve, according to a CBRE survey.

Office occupants’ expectations are “trending towards growth,” said Julie Whelan, an office occupancy analyst at CBRE.

Forty-three percent of respondents said they expected to expand their office space, while only 33% plan to use less space. The remainder, about one-fourth of respondents, expected their office space to remain the same.

The results from CBRE’s Americas Office Occupier Sentiment